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Campaign spending, committee votes, backroom deals and budget memos. State politics can seem less than thrilling unless you know where to look.

"WPR Politics" is a weekly podcast about the ins and outs of Wisconsin's political news. Host John K. Wilson and WPR's Capitol reporters Laurel White and Shawn Johnson clue listeners into stories they may have missed and tell them what's actually interesting about stories they've already heard a thousand times.

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State lawmakers are working on an incentive package for Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, and everything about it is big, from the manufacturing campus the company wants to build to the tax credits Republicans want to pass. What does the Foxconn bill say? Give the podcast a listen and find out.

With the state three weeks past its deadline for a new budget, Republicans controlling the various levers of state government still haven't come to an agreement on how to proceed. The governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader all seem to be caught in a game of political hot potato,...

It may be summer of 2017 but it's not too early to be thinking about the 2018 Wisconsin governor's race. There are plenty of people out there that can already see themselves behind that desk — some of whom are more forthcoming and dead-set than others. But how to keep all those names straight?...

For most Wisconsinites who don't follow state budget negotiations all that closely, the status of transportation funding negotiations Friday probably seemed pretty similar to where things stood last week and the week before that. But for those who do pay rapt attention to the daily drama at the state Capitol — either out of professional obligation or peculiar proclivity toward politics — this week had all the good plot twists and turns of a soap opera.